Read the full judgment text of CACC 000118/1969 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 7 March 1969.
1. In this case the appellant was charged with being a suspected person found loitering and with unlawful possession of an instrument fit for an unlawful purpose. Evidence was given that two police officers at 11.10 a.m. saw the appellant acting suspiciously in the street. Unfortunately the witnesses were not asked what they meant when they said that he was "acting suspiciously", but they went on to describe how the appellant was seen to walk down the street and to look into parked cars. He trie